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Herbs: Herbs, the useful plants, have been grown in kitchen gardens since the earliest times, and were among the precious cargo brought with the colonists on their journey to America.Edible Flowers: Ancient herbals and still-room books- the cookbooks of their age, and are filled with recipes using flowers. Salads were gathered from garden and field; violets, nasturtiums, pot marigolds, and clove gillyflowers (dianthus) lent welcome color and often piquant flavor. Flower butters, syrups, conserves and confections were relished as well, and flowers were pickled and stored in crocks, to be eaten in the dark days of winter.

Minty liquorice scented leaves make one of the best fresh-leaf teas available, much used as a delicious tummy soother! The tender young leaves can be chopped and added to salads that call for mint as well. This new variety has a compact, well-branched habit and saturated violet-blue flowers.

Introduced to America by the Colonists, catnip has a long history in herbal apothocaries. Among a myriad of uses catnip tea is relaxing and soothing, especially effective in children. Most cats, on the other hand, are aroused by its signature potent minty scent that mimics cat pheromones, rubbing and rolling on the plant and eating it in apparent abandon. After 30 minutes or so they become temporaryily immune to its effects, a good thing as some cats can demolish the plants. Kittens, however, dislike catnip. Easy to grow, it can be pinched to cultivate a bushy form full of leaves, not flowers, preventing it from reseeding excessively. Attracts the beneficial insect soldier beetles.